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The original PlayStation 3's case was designed by Teiyu Goto of Sony, and uses the same typeface as the marketing materials for the film Spider-Man 3. [30] It has a glossy piano-black finish, and the power and eject buttons are touch-sensitive. The PlayStation 3 Slim is quieter and more compact than its predecessor.
The PlayStation Store is an online virtual market available to users of Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3) and PlayStation Portable (PSP) game consoles via the PlayStation Network. The Store offers a range of downloadable content both for purchase and available free of charge.
A 120 GB Slim model Motorized slot-loading disc cover. This feature is absent in the Super Slim model. The redesigned version of the PlayStation 3 (commonly referred to as the "PS3 Slim" and officially branded "PS3") features an upgradeable 120 GB, 160 GB, [25] [26] 250 GB or 320 GB [25] [26] hard drive and is 33% smaller, 36% lighter and consumes 34% (CECH-20xx) or 45% (CECH-21xx) less power ...
March 3, 2017 600,000 2017 Sony PlayStation 3 March 23, 2007 500,000 [70] March 2008 Atari 2600 1978 450,000 [71] 1983 Microsoft Xbox 360 December 2, 2005 281,000 [72] June 2007 Sega Saturn July 1995 200,000 [68] 1999 Dreamcast October 1999 180,000 [73] February 2001 Mega CD 1993 140,000 [17] 1994 Mattel: Intellivision: 1982 100,000 [71] 1983
On October 18, 2007, SCEA announced that the 80 GB PlayStation 3 model would receive an immediate price reduction in North America to US$499/CAD$499. [ 16 ] On November 2, 2007, the 40 GB model was released in North America for US$ 399/ CAD$ 399, with Spider-Man 3 on Blu-ray as a pack-in. [ 16 ]
The Cell processor version used by the PlayStation 3 has a main CPU and 6 SPEs available to the user, giving the Gravity Grid machine a net of 16 general-purpose processors and 96 vector processors. The machine has a one-time cost of $9,000 to build and is adequate for black-hole simulations which would otherwise cost $6,000 per run on a ...
The CPU core is a two-way superscalar in-order RISC processor. [3] Based on the MIPS R5900, it implements the MIPS-III instruction set architecture (ISA) and much of MIPS-IV, in addition to a custom instruction set developed by Sony which operated on 128-bit wide groups of either 32-bit, 16-bit, or 8-bit integers in single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) fashion (e.g. four 32-bit integers ...
A cluster of PlayStation 3s running a Linux operating system. A PlayStation 3 cluster is a distributed system computer composed primarily of PlayStation 3 video game consoles. Before and during the console's production lifetime, its powerful IBM Cell CPU attracted interest in using multiple, networked PS3s for affordable high-performance ...